The People's Republic of NeoVernex is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Neodone with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.231 billion NeoVernexians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neova. The average income tax rate is 88.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The NeoVernexian economy, worth 466 trillion Neos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 110,340 Neos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens, and crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NeoVernex's national animal is the Vernexian tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Neoism.

NeoVernex is ranked 252,433^rd in the world and 12,286^th in Lazarus for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.1 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.